^○Shing-Hwa Liu¹, Li-Ting Tsai¹, Chih-Kang Chiang¹, Meng-Tsan Chiang² (1.College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2.National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan)

^○Meng-Tsan Chiang¹, Pei-Jin Peng², Chih-Kang Chiang², Shing-Hwa Liu² (1.National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan, 2.College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan)

^○Tadafumi Yokoyama¹, Kevin J. O'Brien², Tesiya M. Franklin³, Ben Long G. Zuo⁴, Mei Xing G. Zuo⁴, Melissa A. Merideth², Wendy J. Introne³, Bernadette R. Gochuico³ (1.Department of Pediatrics, Kanazawa University Hospital, 2.Office of the Clinical Director, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, 3.Medical Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, 4.Section of Fibrosis, National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health)

^○Yosuke Hirakawa¹, Dai Satoh¹, Hajime Nagasu², Seiji Kishi², Yuichiro Yano³, Naoki Kashihara⁴, Masaomi Nangaku¹ (1.Division of Nephrology and Endocrinology, the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, 2.Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Kawasaki Medical School, 3.Department of Advanced Epidemiology, NCD Epidemiology Research Center, Shiga University of Medical Science, 4.Kawasaki Geriatric Medical Center, Kawasaki Medical School, Okayama, Japan)

^○Takehisa Yamada¹, Yukinao Sakai², Osamu Kurihara³, Tetsuya Kashiwagi², Masato Iwabu² (1.Department of Nephrology, Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokusoh Hospital, Chiba, Japan, 2.Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Nephrology, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan, 3.Department of Cardiology, Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokusoh Hospital, Chiba, Japan)

^○Shina Lee, Mi-Jung Yu, Won-young Kim, Seung-Jung Kim (Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea)

^○Takahisa Kasugai, Miho Murashima, Takusei Ryu, Waka Ichihara, Tatsuya Tomonari, Minamo Ono, Masashi Mizuno, Takayuki Hamano (Nagoya city university hospital)

^○Takahisa Kasugai, Miho Murashima, Takusei Ryu, Waka Ichihara, Tatsuya Tomonari, Minamo Ono, Masashi Mizuno, Takayuki Hamano (Nagoya city university hospital)